With the Rev Dr Karen Smith.
With Alistair Cooke. Rpt of Fri
6.05 Papers
6.08 Sports Desk
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife of the British countryside.
Producer Hugh O'Donnell Extended at 1.30pm
Presented by Miriam O'Reilly. Producer Hugh o'Donnell
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rhidian Brook.
8.50 Yesterday in Parliament
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Rebecca Armstrong Shortened llpm PHONE: [number removed] Email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk
Arthur Smith presents a selection of the best international travellers' tales.
PHONE: [number removed] Email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uk
The Times's chief sports correspondent
Simon Barnes reflects on great sporting events that were propelled from the back pages of the newspapers to the front. 3: Olga Korbut. From the very beginning of the 1972 Munich Olympics, Belarusian gymnast Olga Korbut won the hearts of the world. Through rivalry, disaster and tears, Korbut went on to Olympic triumph, taking home three gold medals. But events of far greater gravity were taking place elsewhere: Idi Amin 's expulsion of Ugandan Asians, the Watergate scandal and unrest in prisons across the UK. Producer Laurence Grissell
Dennis Sewell presents a special edition of the political discussion programme, from the USA. Producer Zillah Watson
The stories and the colour behind the world's headlines, with Kate Adie. producer TonyGrant
Paul Lewis brings you impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jessica Dunbar Repeated Sunday at 9pm
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis star in the satire and sketches show, with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstock , Jon Holmes and Emma Kennedy. Repeated from Friday
Jonathan Dimbleby is in the chair at the National Society for Epilepsy in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, with a panel that includes the Shadow Foreign Secretary Michael Ancram MP: Martin Bowley, Chair of the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group, and Simon Hughes MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Home Affairs.
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions. Phone [number removed] or e-mail: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
Producer Victoria Wakely
By Ronnie Smith.
A love story with music. Ever since 1960, when he first met Laura Wilson down the Lillie Road Youth Club, truck driver Bobby Buckley has always thought stardom was just around the corner.
Dylan Winter challenges two catering tutors to recreate a Roman banquet that the Emperor Claudius might have eaten after the invasion of Britain in the first century AD. With the help of archaeologists, food historians and military re-enactors from the notoriously barbaric 14th Legion, they draw up a menu that relies heavily on fish sauce, honey and vinegar. But how will they cope with cooking on charcoal? And how will first-century cuisine taste to 21st-century palates? Producer Jolyon Jenkins
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.
Series editor/producer Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Dan Damon.
Join Ned Sherrin for a sparkling agglomeration of music, comedy and conversation. Producer Torquii Macleod
Glenn Close has always chosen difficult parts in her film career and, true to form, she is making her
London theatre debut in one of the great and most demanding American roles of them all, as Blanche DuBois , in Tennessee Williams's classic A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Trevor Nunn. Tom Sutcliffe and guests review her performance, as well as a major exhibition of Constable selected by Lucian Freud -the first time he has agreed to select work for an exhibition - and shown exclusively in Paris. Producer Mohini Patel
Former US astronaut Jerry Linenger reads the first of two selections of letters he wrote to his 14-month-old baby son during a six-month period of working on the Mir space station. He shares his experiences, memories and hopes with his son, so that one day he might be forgiven for his six-month absence. Repeated from Sunday
Throughout the history of Hollywood there have been actresses who have dominated the silver screen with their deadly allure, possessing the charms to entrap men and make them do their bidding. These actresses have come to be known as femmes fatales. Veteran Hollywood actor
Angus Macinnes looks at the film beauties who could kiss and kill in equal measure. Producer lanDocherty
By Richard Adams. Dramatised by Neville Teller in two parts. 2: Our rabbit heroes have to use all their cony cunning to rescue some females from the neighbouring warren, ruled by the iron rod of General Woundwort, in order to establish their own new dynasty.
Music arranged and played by Chris Leslie Director Peter Leslie Wild Repeated from Sunday
Gambling on the Future: How Should the Gambling Laws Be Reformed? As the government reviews the future of gambling in Britain, Nick Ross asks a panel of leading thinkers and decision makers to finda radical solution to a complex problem. Repeated from Wednesday
The first round in the nationwide general-knowledge contest continues with more contestants from the Midlands and East Anglia. The chairman is Robert Robinson. Repeated from Monday
Roger McGough presents a seasonal journey though the poetry of autumn, including verse by John Clare , Ted Hughes and Edward Thomas. Repeated from Sunday
5: Burning End by Ruth Rendell. A woman caring for her difficult mother-in-law watches as sunlight hits a glass vase and scorches the papers underneath.
This last story in the series is read by Sue Johnston. Producer Julia Butt
